Buried beneath the hype surrounding iPhone and Apple's growing Mac market share, the company still offers server-grade solutions that are making some dent in the high-end research markets - and now one of the company's early champions is adding another Apple server farm to the collection.
Virginia Tech has deployed a new 29-teraflop Mac supercomputing cluster that's based on 324 Mac Pros, it has been revealed. The cluster is at the Center for High-End Computing Systems (CHECS) within the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. The system would have been ranked in the Top 100 systems of the June 2008 Top500 list of supercomputers.
Ensuring the Macs are all talking to each other, Mellanox Technologies' 40Gb/s InfiniBand technology has been deployed to interconnect the machines.
